Toolbox

What is a toolbox?

The collection of tools.

A common set of modules to ensure recognizable features and behavior across all tools.

Any administration tool/panel (web app) that some employee/partner needs to use in order to get their job/task done.

Examples:

"Free Getting Started"-package:

A ZF2 skeleton application with all files and folders set up properly to give you all the common functionality you need.

Think: A "Hello world" bare bone application.

You should be able to get cranking on your business logic almost immediately.

Authentication: Tommy is in fact Tommy
Authorization: RBAC. Tommy has access to tool X and Z, but not Y
Audit logging: "Tommy used the admin tool at 13:37 on April 1st to give Johnny Wishbone a year of free access to the paywall products of VG+".
Debug logging classes: Smart classes that can gather valuable debug information that is only logged if something special happens
Toolbox navigational menu + tool-specific navigational menu
Personal system warnings (personal feedback displayed on the top of the screen)
Design/styling/common form elements: Consistent look and feel

toolbox.vg.no is a virtual host with the docroot @ /services/apache/toolbox.vg.no/html/. toolbox.aftenposten.no could be another. Could be on different virtual machines.
/services/application/toolbox.vg.no/menuAdmin is one tool for VG
/services/apache/toolbox.vg.no/html/menuAdmin is a symlink to /services/application/toolbox.vg.no/menuAdmin/public
Tools should be implemented so they can be reused across toolboxes with only configuration changes
All tools in a toolbox will automatically share a set of common configurations:

The tool can also have it own specific configurations (the purge-tool is configured with the varnishes to purge)

By jocumsen